Tried to mount a SDCHI card in the internal card reader on my ’09 MBP running lion 10.9.2 and no luck.. The fix? Run XQuartz from Spotlight. It should open up a terminal window. You should now be able to insert the SDCH(i) card and have it mounted as a normal drive. Weird fix, but…

http://e2e.ti.com/support/low_power_rf/f/155/p/128600/460504.aspx Open the samples in IAR studio. In Workspace window->files select the root of the project (i.e click on “light_switch – srf05_cc2530” for light_switch project). Open “project options” (or just click Alt+F7) Go to the Linker menu->Config (tab)->Linker command file (sub menu) Ensure that Override default is checked. Copy the following line to the override…

General Project Setup One of the most important points here is that if you’re attempting to create an embedded system is that your linker script is setup properly. When using LWIP, I had to increase the heap and stack size of my main application to 0x0A00 as seen below. Bootloader Generation From the SDK, create…

Easy as pie. sudo modprobe usbmon Then runwireshark as normal and select the USB interface. Here’s a pic for the visually inclined. You may select between the two or more interfaces to find which one has the device you’re trying to debug. If there’s an issue, check with tail -f /var/log/syslog to compare the errors…

You can use dconf-editor to change the default mouse behavior. I prefer sloppy focus, but I do want the focus to change the active window. Not sure how to accomplish that because as soon as you move the mouse the focus is then changed to the previously-active window, not the one that just popped up….

When using the following: def processSerialData(): line = ser.readline() if len(line) > 2: print line appendToFile(line) You’ll notice that the output will automatically append an additional newline sequence ‘/n/r’ If you change print line to print line, (notice the comma following the variable…

Time to consolidate my efforts project-wise. Too much spreading and not enough butter. High Priority Projects Project BBQ Controller Justification FINALLY linking all the different aspects of product design/development that i’ve learned and been involved with in one complete, in-production project. Skills Used Embedded Systems Design/Implementation PCB Design / Layout C, Python API Development Database…